'Trusted' phone shop worker stole mobiles worth £5,400 from Oswestry store to pay off gambling debts
A phone shop employee in Oswestry stole mobiles worth nearly £5,500 from his own workplace to sell at secondhand shops so he could pay his gambling debts.
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Tomas Dunn, who is 33, lifted "five or six" handsets from the EE shop in Bailey Street, Oswestry, and sold them on to make cash.
Prosecutor Katie Price told Telford Magistrates Court on Wednesday (February 12) that Dunn's crime was discovered when a supervisor checked the shop's inventory.
"The supervisor was carrying out checks at an EE franchise in Oswestry and discovered five or six mobiles taken, coming to a total of £5,464.80.
"Mr Dunn confirmed that he had taken the mobile phones and that was to assist with his gambling debts. He sold them at a local secondhand phone shop.
"He accepts his dishonesty and he was obviously let go by the store immediately."
Dunn, of Oswald Road in Oswestry, was charged with a single count of theft by employee and pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.
